We all fall down Review
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier is a complicated book. It takes place in Wickburge and Burnside Massachusetts, some time in the 80's or 90's. It is narrated by three different people in first person. One of those people is Jane Jerome, she is a 15 year-old girl who lives in a house that got trashed by four people. Her sister was knocked into a coma by being thrown down a flight of stairs by the trasher Harry Flowers. Another narrator was Mickey Stallings, a.k.a. "The Avenger". The Avenger's age is 11 years old but Mickey is 41. This makes no sense to me but when Mickey killed Vaughn Matterson, he became The Avenger. He saw the whole trashing and that's what started The Avenger thing. After it was over, he said that he would avenge the house. The Avenger has a big role in this book and is my favorite character. The last narrator is Buddy Walker. Buddy is a trasher. He was drunk at the time but was there and didn't stop the trashing from taking place. The three characters all end up having something to do with the trashing, Buddy; who was a trasher, Jane; who was living in the trashed house and Mickey; who was the only witness of the trashing. Later in the book Buddy and Jane meet. Jane and Buddy both feel tha
Buddy found out about the incident with Mickey and Jane, he tried to call her several times but couldn't reach her. When she finally called, he was excited to hear her voice again. She told him to meet her at her house, and he did so. When she opened the door he knew that it was over, she knew. His efforts to keep the relationship together failed and he walked out of her house with his head hung low. A week or so later the evil Harry Flowers called Jane. He told her that yes, Buddy was with him but he was drunk and that when Buddy's parents split up he had taken advantage of him. He said all this because he said "I owe him this call." She hung up the phone. Three months later Buddy met Jane in the mall by accident and the voice changes to third person. They met face to face and they calmly talked to each other Jane said she had to leave and Buddy in his state of depression said "It was beautiful there for a while, wasn't it, Jane?" and she said back to him "Was it?" and there the book came to an end. Key event #2 - The trashing takes place in the Jerome's house and Karen falls down a flight of stairs and is knocked into a coma while Mickey watches the whole thing.
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Approximate Word count = 988
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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